摘要
Books in 2010 by Stephen Kinzer,Andrew C.McCarthy,and Robert R.Reilly,major writers on the Middle East and Islam,have clearly articulated the crisis facing both critical areas of the Middle East and Islam,especially as they affect the international relations of such countries as the United States.Kinzer traces the development of Turkey toward a modernizing secular democracy and Iran toward a traditional Islamic Republic.He proposes a series of initiatives for the United States to utilize to make them allies,as well as to help solve the crisis between Israel and Palestine.Sensationalizing“the Iran threat”to America and other Western countries,the very conservative McCarthy claims that Islam’s“Grand Jihad”is directed not only toward other Western countries but particularly against the United States.He equates Islam as aligned with“the Left”and calls the Obama administration a major part of a socialistic“Left”which enables Islam to defeat American Christian values and heritage from inside.Reilly claims that Islam chose irrationality over rationality in its domestic and foreign affairs over a millennium ago,leading to a very illusive peace in the Middle East,an area where scientific exploration is nearly dead,translating fewer books in the last thousand years than Spain in a single year,and why Muslims see natural disasters as Allah’s direct retribution for non-Islamic,and thus impure behavior toward Allah.
